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Florida teen becomes internet sensation by hitching ride on 30ft shark
A teenager from Florida has become the hot topic on the internet after he hitched a ride on the back of a 30ft shark. Chris Kreis, aged 19, grabbed the fin of a whale shark and was pulled through the water for 20 seconds before he let it go, The Mirror reported. Kreis was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico when the whale shark swam up alongside his boat. He then dived in and held on to the beast as ...
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Florida fishermen find $2.5 million bale of cocaine
View results Five fisherman on a commercial expedition off the Florida panhandle on Wednesday found a package containing 55 pounds of cocaine floating in the water, worth an estimated $2.5 million, before handing it over to police, FoxNews.com reported.Okaloosa County ...
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Baltimore police commander to head OC department
OCEAN CITY, Md. -- A Baltimore police commander has been named the chief of the Ocean City department.Lt. Col. Ross Buzzuro will assume his duties in the resort town on July 2, overseeing nearly 100 full-time officers and 100 seasonal officers.Buzzuro began his law-enforcement career in 1985 as a police cadet in Baltimore. He was named lieutenant colonel in 2007. Buzzuro has a bachelor's ...
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NFC South Roundup Offseason Break Edition
LB Jon Beason made it back onto the field before the end of the Panthers' workouts, but in New Orleans LB Victor Butler was likely lost for the season after a practice mishap...That news and more from around the Bucs' division as offseason programs wrap ...
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Florida prisoner escapes after getting fired from McDonalds in Daytona
Daytona Beach .The public is being asked to help find Marcus Lewis, 22, who is serving a 30-month sentence for a burglary and grand-theft conviction out of Putnam County.Lewis and another inmate were fired from their jobs at McDonald's after they showed up two hours late on ...
Movie Review
Guess Who
While the title and the basic scenario suggest a race-reversed comedic riff on Stanley Kramer's sincere 1967 dramedy Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Guess Who's lineage is more directly traced to the nerve-wracked comedy of Meet the Parents (2001). Both center on decent, earn ... ...
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Police Investigate Purse Snatching in Plantation
The suspect is described as a Latin male with a thin beard wearing a red and blue striped shirt and jeans. He was seen leaving in a gray car, police ...
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Dade Commission Approves No-Kill Shelter Plan
The Miami-Dade County commission has approved a plan that will stop the killing of adoptable dogs and cats from county shelters. But to stop the killings, the county will have to budget about $20 million. Taxes will increase, costing taxpayers about $20 a year per ...
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Florida boy recovers from Eastern Diamondbacks bite and gets hide as trophy
A Florida boy is back on his feet after spending two weeks in the hospital recovering from a snakebite, an he is now contemplating what to do with the serpent's skin. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Smith of Newberry received what doctors said may be a record 80 vials of antivenin at University of Florida Health Shands Hospital for a bite on his right leg from a five-foot long eastern diamondback ...
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Parkland man accused of trying to lure girl 13 into sex via text
An undercover detective intercepted text messages Richard Lee Marcelino II, 34, of Parkland, sent to a girl, 13, trying to lure her into sex, police ...
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Deputies arrest man in Tampa who slipped their grasp for 15 hours
Hillsborough Sheriff's deputies arrested a Riverview man Monday night after he allegedly battered a deputy who tried to serve him with felony warrants and ran free for more than 15 hours, the sheriff's office said. Kieron Jamla Lewis and James Beasley came to the door at 13312 Evening Sunset Lane in Riverview when deputies knocked at 1:30 a.m. Monday. Deputies asked for Beasley, whom ...